
Too intellectual, too complex, too introspective: often German-language literature was not rated very highly by domestic readers. But the times are changing. Felicitas von Lovenberg, literary critic with the daily Frankfurter...more

Fatmire “Lira” Bajramaj is the shooting star of the German national women’s football team – with an unusual career. A portraitmore
Interesting facts about Germany - the Land of Sportmore
Sport breaks down barriers; it can open up new perspectives on life and strengthen civil society: good reasons for international sports cooperation.more
Eleven curious items from the world of the German language which even Germany’s most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, would not have known.more
Football can be a world view and the object of contemplation for great minds. Football and intellectuals: a passionate relationship at the very highest levelmore
How much does sport influence a country’s image? An interview with British political advisor Simon Anholt about countries as brandsmore

Too many cases, too many genders, too many rules? Is German really so difficult? No, says bestseller writer Bastian Sick: “It’s easy – after all, everyone manages with that.” And he gives ten more reasons for learning German –...more
Biopoetics, digital humanities and intercultural philology: German studies is facing the challenges of the information age with new areas of research. One advantage for the first B.A. graduates is that courses have become more...more
The Japanese philosophy professor Kenichi Mishima has lived, taught and done research in Germany and Japan since the 1970s. We asked him: Is German the language of philosophy?more

The President of the Goethe-Institut Professor Klaus-Dieter Lehmann talks about language and identity and why it is worth learning German as a foreign languagemore
What role does German play in today’s world? Prof. Ulrich Ammon, a distinguished sociolinguist, examines the position of the German language in business, science, politics – and on the Internetmore

American bestselling author Jonathan Franzen studied German – in Pennsylvania, Munich and Berlin. An interview about the German language and the “annoying question of gender”more

An interview with Steffi Jones, former world-class player and President of the Organizing Committee (OC), on the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011more

An interview with Germany coach Joachim “Jogi” Löw on the 2010 World Cup, the host country South Africa, and Germany’s chancesmore
How attractive is German studies outside Germany? An interview with Professor Dr. Franciszek Grusza, President of the International Association for Germanic Studiesmore
The Federal Foreign Office and its partners want to inspire more young people abroad to learn German – with the “German – Language of Ideas” initiativemore